SAN ANGELO, TEXAS — Dougherty Mortgage LLC has closed a $3.7 million Fannie Mae loan for the acquisition of Bent Tree Apartments, a 112-unit multifamily property located in San Angelo. Dougherty’s Minneapolis office arranged the seven-year term, 30-year amortization loan on behalf of the borrower, SA Bent Tree Apartments LP.
PLANO, TEXAS — A partnership controlled by real estate development companies Gault Co. and RTG Capital LLC has sold Willow Bend Crossing to an unnamed Dallas investor. The newly constructed shopping center is located near the southwest corner of the Dallas North Tollway and Park Boulevard in Plano. Shadow-anchored by Costco and The Home Depot, the tenant lineup includes Shell Shack, Jersey Mike’s, Salata, Wok Box, LA Bikini and Torchy’s Tacos. Bryce Gissler and Jason Vitorino of the Marcus & Millichap team The Vitorino Group brokered the sale.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — SWBC Real Estate has sold the Overlook Ranch apartment complex. SWBC Real Estate developed the property in a partnership with American National Insurance Co. CAF Capital Partners purchased the property in an off-market transaction for an undisclosed amount. Completed in July 2015, Overlook Ranch is located in the AllianceTexas corridor of north Fort Worth. The Class A complex consists of 318 garden-style units comprising one-, two- and three-bedroom floorplans. Overlook Ranch’s amenities include a Texas ranch-themed clubhouse with a fitness center, resort-style pool, game room and a business center.
TUSCALOOSA, ALA. — InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and Chance Partners have broken ground on Hotel Indigo Tuscaloosa Downtown, a 91-room hotel located at 120 Greensboro Ave. within Riverfront Village, a $60 million mixed-use development. Riverfront Village fronts Black Warrior River in downtown Tuscaloosa. The new hotel will be the first LEED-certified hotel in Alabama and Tuscaloosa’s first riverfront hotel. IHG and Chance Partners expect to open the hotel in winter 2016. Upon completion, the hotel will feature 1,000 square feet of executive meeting space, a fitness center, restaurant, rooftop bar, business center and a 2,500-square-foot outdoor terrace. Interstate Hotels & Resorts will manage the hotel upon completion.
ATLANTA — The RADCO Cos. has purchased two apartment communities in metro Atlanta totaling 554 units for a combined $53.4 million. The properties include Andover at East Cobb in Marietta and Crossing at McDonough in McDonough. Both properties offer apartments with one, two and three bedrooms. Community amenities include resort-style pools, fitness facilities and business centers with Wi-Fi. Each apartment complex is within one mile of I-75 and provides immediate access to major local corporations such as Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta and Midland Industrial Park in McDonough. Atlanta-based RADCO will invest a combined $6.5 million to upgrade both properties through unit upgrades, amenity enhancements and exterior improvements. Andover at East Cobb will be rebranded as Winterset at East Cobb, and Crossing at McDonough will become Crossings at McDonough. RADCO purchased both assets from Wilkinson Real Estate Advisors Inc., and the two communities are now the third and fourth assets that RADCO and Wilkinson have traded together. CBRE brokered both transactions. RADCO’s portfolio now includes 44 multifamily assets with an additional 1,301 units under contract, which should close in September and October.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — High Street Residential, the multifamily subsidiary of Trammell Crow Co., and its joint venture equity partner have teamed up with Central Armature Works (CAW) to redevelop an existing CAW electrical repair and supply warehouse at 1200 3rd St. N.E. in Washington, D.C. High Street Residential plans to transform the 2.5-acre parcel in Washington’s NoMa neighborhood into an apartment building, condominium building, outdoor public space, street-level retail and a hotel. The transit-oriented project will be located directly adjacent to the NoMa Metro station. HFF represented CAW in the land sale.
ALEXANDRIA, VA. — Rubenstein Partners LP has purchased 2461 Eisenhower Avenue, a 360,000-square-foot mixed-use property in Alexandria. The project comprises a 14-story, 335,000-square-foot office tower wrapped by 25,000 square feet of retail and restaurants. The office building is currently gutted and is undergoing a 15-month transformation into a Class A property with a fitness center and conference facilities. Rubenstein Partners also purchased an adjacent retail pad at 2425 Eisenhower Ave. that is zoned for 7,500 square feet. The properties are located across the street from the National Science Foundation’s new 720,000-square-foot headquarters and the Eisenhower Avenue Station Metro within the 56-acre Hoffman Town Center.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — HFF has arranged two loans totaling $36.2 million for the Holiday Inn Express & Suites and Fairfield Inn & Suites in Washington, D.C. The two adjacent hotels each have 126 guest rooms and feature a breakfast area, lobby, fitness center, swimming pool, business center and between 600 and 800 square feet of meeting space. The Holiday Inn Express & Suites (1917 Bladensburg Road) and the Fairfield Inn & Suites (2305 New York Ave. N.E.) share 251 parking spaces on approximately 3.6 acres at the intersection of Bladensburg Road and New York Avenue. Mark Remington of HFF arranged the $19.3 million loan for Holiday Inn Express & Suites and the $16.9 million loan for Fairfield inn & Suites through Burke & Herbert Bank on behalf of the borrower, Rocks Engineering Co. The fixed-rate loans each have a term of 10 years.
As Charlotte’s job growth has returned, so has traffic into Uptown during rush hour, a new apartment project on every corner, healthy single-family demand and a food fight. Currently there is an all-out war for grocery market share between behemoths Harris Teeter, Publix and Walmart Neighborhood Market, all adding stores at a record rate, while Whole Foods Market continues to expand within the market on a measured basis. Newcomers Sprouts Farmers Market and Lidl, a German-based supermarket grocer offering discount items, are set to make market entries between 2016 to 2018, with Food Lion planning to refurbish a number of their stores in the market. Pappas Properties has begun construction on a Harris Teeter at Berewick and Raley Miller in a joint venture with Levine Properties, and has filed a rezoning petition to add another Harris Teeter at the corner of Fairview and Providence. Harris Teeter has recently added a store in Cornelius, as has Publix. Publix has recently opened a new store in the booming South End submarket located along the transit line on South Boulevard and has won zoning approval for a store to be constructed at Cotswold. A grocer is also rumored to be scouting a redevelopment …
SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — Endeavor Real Estate Group has announced plans to invest $27.5 million to revamp Springtown Shopping Center, a retail center with low occupancy along I-35 in San Marcos between Austin and San Antonio. Endeavor purchased the center in November, at which point it was 10.5 percent occupied and split among four separate owners. The developer has signed leases with two anchor tenants. EVO Entertainment Group leased 34,000 square feet to build a dine-in luxury movie theater, bowling alley and event venue called The Spot. Gold’s Gym has leased 42,000 square feet.
